Phase 1B Study of Tirabrutinib in Combination with Idelalisib Or Entospletinib in Previously Treated B-Cell Lymphoma
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Leukemia https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-020-01108-x LETTER Lymphoma Phase 1b study of tirabrutinib in combination with idelalisib or entospletinib in previously treated B-cell lymphoma 1 2 2 3 4 Franck Morschhauser ● Martin J. S. Dyer ● Harriet S. Walter ● Alexey V. Danilov ● Loic Ysebaert ● 5 6 7 8 9 Daniel James Hodson ● Christopher Fegan ● Simon A. Rule ● John Radford ● Guillaume Cartron ● 10 11 12 13 Krimo Bouabdallah ● Andrew John Davies ● Stephen Spurgeon ● Nishanthan Rajakumaraswamy ● 13 13 13 13 13 14 Biao Li ● Rita Humeniuk ● Xi Huang ● Pankaj Bhargava ● Juliane M. Jürgensmeier ● Gilles Salles Received: 17 July 2020 / Revised: 17 November 2020 / Accepted: 30 November 2020 © The Author(s) 2020. This article is published with open access To the Editor: ibrutinib, which is characterized by high-affinity inhibition of ten kinases other than BTK [8]. In two separate phase B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling pathway inhibitors 1 studies, TIRA was evaluated for treatment of patients with (including Bruton’s tyrosine kinase [BTK] inhibitors, and follicular lymphoma (FL), non-germinal center B-cell (non- phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase inhibitors [PI3Ki]) have GCB) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), mantle cell 1234567890();,: 1234567890();,: shown clinical efficacy in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). lymphoma (MCL), and lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma However, responses to these agents have been limited in (LPL) [7, 9]. Response rates were 20–100% across disease depth and duration. This may be due to resistance to PI3Kδ types, with a favorable safety profile [7, 9]. The only car- and BTK inhibitors as monotherapy [1–5]. The emergence diovascular adverse events (AEs) were atrial fibrillation/ of resistant clones may be addressed by combining these 2 flutter, which occurred in 5 of the 107 patients in the classes of drugs. Furthermore, tolerability of these drug 2 studies, 4 of whom had this as a pre-existing medical classes has been a concern. Combination therapy using condition. lower doses of one or more classes of inhibitors may We assessed the combination of TIRA with a PI3Kδ address some limitations. inhibitor (idelalisib [IDELA]) or a SYK inhibitor (entos- Tirabrutinib (TIRA, formerly ONO/GS-4059) is a pletinib [ENTO]). IDELA is a first-in-class PI3Kδ inhibitor selective, irreversible, and small-molecule BTK inhibitor approved for the treatment of relapsed or refractory (R/R) [6, 7]. TIRA has greater target selectivity compared with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), and FL in the US and Europe [10]. Response rates were 54% and 58% in FL and SLL, Supplementary information The online version of this article (https:// respectively [10]. ENTO (formerly GS-9973) is an inves- doi.org/10.1038/s41375-020-01108-x) contains supplementary tigational selective noncovalent inhibitor of SYK. In a material, which is available to authorized users. * Franck Morschhauser 8 University of Manchester and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, [email protected] Manchester, UK 1 Univ. Lille, CHU Lille, ULR 7365, GRITA - Groupe de 9 Department of Clinical Hematology, University Hospital of Recherche sur les formes Injectables et les Technologies Montpellier and UMR-CNRS 5535, Montpellier, France Associées, F-59000 Lille, France 10 Hematology Clinic, University Hospital of Bordeaux, 2 Ernest and Helen Scott Haematological Research Institute, Pessac, France University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 11 Cancer Research UK Centre, University of Southampton, 3 City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA Southampton, UK 4 Département d’Hématologie IUCT-Oncopole, Toulouse, France 12 Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA 5 WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 13 Gilead Sciences, Inc, Foster City, CA, USA 6 University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK 14 Hospices Civils de Lyon, Department of Hematology, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France 7 University of Plymouth Medical School, Plymouth, UK F. Morschhauser et al. study of patients with FL, LPL, MCL, and marginal zone patients having achieved a response (27% complete, lymphoma (MZL), treatment with ENTO 800 mg twice 38% partial) on their last prior therapy. daily resulted in response rates ranging from 12% to 35%, Study drug exposures are shown in Supplementary Fig. 2 with manageable toxicity [11]. and Supplementary Table 3. In the TIRA/IDELA and The present study was designed to evaluate the safety of TIRA/ENTO groups, discontinuations due to AEs occurred TIRA/IDELA and TIRA/ENTO combinations and define in 10% and 3% of patients, and discontinuations due to PD the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) for each combination occurred in 60% and 48% of patients, respectively. Five and preliminary efficacy in patients with selected subtypes patients on TIRA/IDELA and 6 patients on TIRA/ENTO of NHL and CLL. The results from CLL patients have been died on-study, all due to PD. reported elsewhere [12]. Herein, we report results in NHL In the TIRA/IDELA treatment group, treatment- patients. emergent AEs (TEAEs) occurred in 100% of patients, This was a phase 1b, open-label, multicenter, sequential with 38% having serious TEAEs (Table 2). TEAEs leading dose-escalation and -expansion study in patients with R/R to investigator-determined TIRA discontinuation occurred NHL (NCT02457598). Eligible patients had a diagnosis of in 15% of TIRA/IDELA patients. These included anemia, non-GCB DLBCL, FL, MCL, or other indolent NHL neutropenia, pancytopenia, atrial fibrillation, and transami- (MZL, SLL, or LPL) as documented by medical records. nase increased (1 patient each), and rash (n = 2). TEAEs Patients had a history of ≥1 prior therapy (but no prior leading to discontinuation of IDELA occurred in 18% of exposure to BTK or PI3K inhibitors), were not transplant patients. Grade ≥3 laboratory abnormalities occurred in 69% eligible, and had either progressive disease (PD) or no of TIRA/IDELA patients. The most common hematologic response (stable disease) on their most recent treatment and hepatic abnormalities (excluding lymphopenia) were regimen. Except for those with LPL, patients had a radi- decreased neutrophils and platelets, and increased liver ologically measurable presence of ≥1 lymph node lesions. enzymes (Supplementary Table 4). One MZL patient Patients were treated with TIRA ranging from 20 mg to receiving TIRA 20 mg BID + IDELA 50 mg BID experi- 160 mg QD in combination with IDELA (50 mg BID or enced a dose-limiting toxicity (grade 4 neutropenia and 100 mg QD) or ENTO (200 mg QD or 400 mg QD) grade 4 thrombocytopenia), and subsequently the protocol according to a standard 3 + 3 dose-escalation schema was amended to include only TIRA QD dosing. MTD with (Supplementary Table 1). TIRA QD dosing in combination with IDELA was not The primary endpoint was safety, evaluated by the reached. occurrence of AEs, and laboratory abnormalities defined as In the TIRA/ENTO treatment group, TEAEs occurred in dose-limiting toxicities (Supplementary Table 2). Pre- 95% of patients, with 36% having serious TEAEs (Table 2). liminary efficacy was evaluated by overall response rate TEAEs leading to investigator-determined TIRA dis- (ORR). Secondary endpoints included pharmacokinetic continuation occurred in 3% of TIRA/ENTO patients. (PK) parameters, progression-free survival (PFS), duration These included biphasic mesothelioma, lung neoplasm of response, time to response, and proportion of patients (malignant), and pancreatitis (one patient each). TEAEs achieving both complete response and undetectable minimal leading to discontinuation of ENTO occurred in 8% of residual disease (MRD). Patients had CT or MRI scans patients. Grade ≥3 laboratory abnormalities occurred in 57% every 12 weeks; those with DLBCL had an additional scan of TIRA/ENTO patients. The most common hematologic at week 6. Further details on study methods are provided in and hepatic abnormalities (excluding lymphopenia) were the Supplementary Methods. decreased neutrophils and platelets, and increased liver Overall, 40 patients were treated with TIRA/IDELA and enzymes (Supplementary Table 4). There were no dose- 91 with TIRA/ENTO (Supplementary Fig. 1). Patient limiting toxicities in the TIRA/ENTO group and MTD was characteristics and baseline demographics of the NHL not reached. subtypes included in this study are shown in Table 1. Forty- Efficacy results are reported across all dose groups in seven percent of DLBCL patients in the TIRA/IDELA both combinations. Response rates are shown in Supple- group were refractory to their last prior regimen; 67% were mentary Table 5. In DLBCL patients, response rates were refractory to prior regimens in the TIRA/ENTO group. In comparable across both combinations; the ORR was 24% the TIRA/IDELA group, 70% of FL patients had failed ≥2 with TIRA/IDELA and 26% with TIRA/ENTO. The ORR prior therapies, and 50% had failed both rituximab/anti- in patients with FL was 20% with TIRA/IDELA and 35% CD20+ and alkylating regimens. Eighty percent were with TIRA/ENTO, and in patients with MCL, ORR was refractory to their last prior treatment regimen before 100% with TIRA/IDELA and 64% with TIRA/ENTO. In enrolling in this study, with stable disease or PD as the best patients with other indolent NHL, the ORR was 58% with prior response. In the TIRA/ENTO group, most patients TIRA/IDELA and 67% with TIRA/ENTO. The median were relapsed rather than refractory, with 65% of FL (Q1, Q3) time to response and the median (Q1, Q3) duration Phase 1b study of tirabrutinib